Best Menaces Poems

Her lungs are black--
Insomniac
Her Love is free
She's after me
I'm up all night
My words are trite
Our will is dead
I toss in bed
We're doomed indeed
Our vice is greed
Three hearts had Lied
We're dead inside
Our pride won't mix
We conjure tricks
With words unsaid
What faith is dead?
Thus, lust is left
With minds,...

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school playground menaces
beastly children; rude bullies
teachers seldom see

disruptive home life
victims* hate coming to school
tattlers are punished

mimicking teachers
dysfunctional parenting 
learned behavior

[*both the bullied and the one
doing the bullying are victims]

written January 27, 2022...

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